Show CASES OF YELLOW FEVER new orleans sept 9 the board of health tonight specifically announces that thre are twelve suspicious cases in one block down town under ordinary circumstances these cases have been deemed su but two weeks ago a refugee from ocean springs died in that vicinity and since then the fever has spread there no patients have died nor have any been seriously ill the board of experts have been studying the cases several days but they have not been able to reach a definite conclusion and it was finally decided to report the cases as suspicious pi pl cious elous in accordance with the boar boards dij pledge to keep the public fully in its confidence the board of health has placed guards about the square and ordered a sanitary inspection for five squares around these twelve cases are on one square in a row of six small houses in one of these a young lady froan ocean springs who was visiting a family here succumbed to the disease her remains were sent to ocean springs the attending physician had no suspicion that she had died of yellow fever dr H 8 14 gully mississippi state health officer has ordered the gulf ship island railroad running from pittsburg to gulf ports closed to traffie traffic of any kind until further notice to prevent the spread of the fever from the infected towns on the gulf to interior points new orleans sept 9 up to nightfall there has been no change in the fever situation two or three serious cases have been reported to the board of health a material falling oft off from yesterday when there were thirty seven these were investigated with the usual results this evening dr oliphant and his corps realized that they have but one battle to fight that of preventing any more importations from the coast and ocean springs the news from the mississippi sound WAS satisfactory today and disappointing satisfactory in that dr Gult Gul terai eraa and the other government experts had declared that the yellow fever existed at ocean springs and biloxi confirm inythe argument of dr oliphant and hie his associates and disappointing be cause the fears of the public have been realized of course the decision of dr Gul guiteras teras has set at lest iest all doubt that yellow fever exists at ocean springs but the people there find some consolation in the fact that peculiar conditions surrounded the death of sheray seymour who was officially official lv declared today to have succumbed to yellow fever he was in bad health before bc fore he was stricken was dis dissipated and unnecessarily exposed himself he was first treated with primitive methods by his family no physician was called for tour four days and when he showed temporary recovery he over ate himself and died dr guiteras dr murray and all who participated participate d in the autopsy declared however howe vei that there was no question that the man died of yellow fever late this evening ta the e three cases heretofore reported as existing at biloxi were conf limed as yellow fever by drs murray and grant after a careful investigation they are thoroughly isolated and tt it is confidently predicted that a spread of the contagion will be prevented dr Gul guiteras teras will go to biloxi and scranton after he has completed 1 his investigations in ocean springs mayor flower of new orleans was asked today if the fever would have the effect of inducing the authorities to give the city a cleaning up he replied in he negative but added however that if president oliphant believed a thorough cleaning up was required to keep the fever out it would be done throughout the city today plugs were opened in order that the gutters might be flushed passenger trains train leaving the city today carried only the ordinary number of passenger gei s dr who has been nursing patients at ocean springs has been stricken with yellow fever at his home at perkinston Per kinston miss the case has bee officially confirmed and dr H S gulley of meridian state health officer has gone to perkinston Per kinston to take charge of the town and establish quarantine dr Salomon 8 report of two cases of yellow fever at scranton is considered reliable and he has been authorized to communicate with the local physicians there to endeavor to isolate the cases dr salomon says the fever is yellow jack but of a mild kind rigid quarantine will be enforced again at scranton the government experts will be asked to go there to determine the character of the disease new orleans sept 9 sheray seymour died at 1 this morning mornin 9 at ocean springs of the prevailing fever As soon as his death was reported arrangements were made to hold an autopsy drs murray carter and of the marine hospital service and drs lehmann dunn gant and bailey were pre present serit it is confidently expected that this autopsy will completely determine the character of 04 the disease that is prevailing at the springs as the case of seymour is a probably a fair type of the worst cases biloxi miss sept 9 the three cases of yellow fever confirmed by the experts today are in the family and are traceable to the use of water in the place which has been the source of sickness for years to every family living in the house dr I 1 C lebo of this city reports a case of black vomit today but the patient is doing fairly well washington Washing toh sept 9 this afternoon surgeon general wyman received the following telegram from surgeon murray at ocean springs third autopsy held by diagnosis of yellow fever consented to by guiteras Guit eraa carter gant and mani maus above was one of suspicious cases seen by guiteras yesterday this telegram sets at rest ILU ail as to the existence of yellow vew tv ocean springs and the marine pital service now fully realizes is grappling with the plague surgeon H C carter of C who is a fever expert of lar large ence and surgeon murray who wl be in command at ocean springs announced their arrival passed assistant surgeon who has been stationed at euis and who also has had experience tatt yellow fever reported for duty feefe today and was ordered to proceed VA art once to ocean springs |